A smiling face made from living human skin could one day be attached to a humanoid robot, allowing machines to emote and communicate in a more life-like way, say researchers. Its wrinkles could ...

The team put the skin on a smiling robotic face, a few centimetres wide, which is moved by rods connected to the base. It was also attached to a similarly sized 3D shape in the form of a human ...

To demonstrate the skin's capabilities, the team engineered a palm-sized robotic face able to form ... smiling robot face over time, they observed the formation of expression lines analogous to ...